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Today's News - Thursday, January 10, 2008

Big plans to build big and green in Paris, Hong Kong, and Manchester. -- Last ditch efforts to save Brutalist school in Wales from the wrecking ball. -- Rybczynski weighs in on NYT HQ: ladylike or bold - depending on where you stand. -- An L.A. high concept condo is low maintenance. -- New Indian embassy in Oman reflects "the flavor of India." -- Students study the "spirit of place" to give meaning to architecture. -- An architect takes charity to heart. -- New architecture park is the "smallest big architecture project in China." -- The spotlight shines on Liverpool's great architecture. -- Landfill to be transformed into a "park for pollinators." -- New chairman of U.K.'s Design Council has a lot to prove to Dyckhoff and designers. -- New RIAI president wants to get people talking. -- An amusing Q&A with Julius Shulman. -- Only two days left to see Gehry show in NYC. -- Call For Entries: 2008 Ceramic Tiles of Italy Design Competition. -- Call for papers for international conference new techniques and strategies for "new emergent architectures."

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World's greenest office block set for Paris: ...will be branded Energy Plus...more than 70,000 sq m and house up to 5,000 people, will produce enough of its own electricity to power all the heating, lighting, and air conditioning required... -- Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM) [image]- Telegraph (UK)

Gammon-Hip Hing joint venture wins Tamar project: Government's [$4.94-billion] Tamar complex will be one of the administration's greenest facilities when completed in 2011...design emphasises environmental protection by ensuring proper control on building bulk and height... -- Rocco Design; EDAW; HOK International [images, links]- news.gov.hk (Hong Kong)

EDAW to bring European-style living to Manchester: A £1 billion plan to transform the east end of Manchester from 'Coronation Street to Copenhagen' has been approved...4,300 home Holt Town Waterfront development...go-ahead could open up a potential goldmine of work for architects... -- Studio Egret West [images]- The Architects' Journal (UK)

Wrecking ball looms over 'Welsh Pimlico': The Twentieth Century Society (C20) has made a last-gasp attempt to save Wales' answer to Pimlico School, the [1972] Evans and Shalev Architects-designed Newport High School. -- HLM Architects [images]- The Architects' Journal (UK)

The New Home of the New York Times: It's gray. And ladylike...distant impression of delicacy changes at street level...Structure hasn't been celebrated this boldly in Manhattan since the George Washington Bridge. By Witold Rybczynski -- Renzo Piano; FXFowle Architects; Gensler; Hank White/HM White Site Architects/Cornelia Hahn Oberlander [slide show essay]- Slate

Remaking the Condo With Light and Air: Habitat 825...is intended to combine low-maintenance condo living with the high-concept creativity usually found only in architect-designed houses. -- Lorcan O’Herlihy [images]- New York Times

Official inauguration of new Indian embassy complex on January 13: ...the building showcases a mixture of the Indo-Oman culture. -- Babbar & Babbar Architects- Times of Oman

Spirit of Place: Students go global: Through a program called Spirit of Place/Spirit of Design, taught by architect Travis Price...students to draw on a site's culture to give meaning to architecture. [slide show]- Architectural Record

Charitable, by Design: ...that's where Schools for Children of the World steps in. "We show them how to plan a school, design a school, then we raise the dollars for the things they can’t do themselves." -- Chuck Newman/Newman Architecture- The Business Ledger

Jinhua, the Smallest Big Architecture Project in China: ...a park of seventeen striking pavilions...a reminder that...good, even brand-name architecture needn't be gargantuan or expensive. -- Ai Weiwei; Yung Ho Chang; Herzog & de Meuron; Fernando Romero; Christ and Gantenbein; Wang Xingwei/Xu Tiantian; Simon Hartmann; Wang Shu; Toshiko Mori; Michael Maltzan; Johan de Wachter [images]- Artforum

Buildings that make us proud: Spotlight on Liverpool's great architecture and heritage: The Biennial, which opens in September, makes good use of Liverpool’s “built environment”...- Liverpool Echo (UK)

Eastview park to be 'one of a kind': ...park for pollinators - including bees, butterflies, hummingbirds and moths - as part of its plans for turning the former Eastview landfill site into a big community park...University of Guelph landscape architecture students have already come up with some ideas and concepts...- Guelph Tribune (Canada)

Redesigning design: Design is more than hot graphics and shiny lemon squeezers, says the Design Council’s new chairman...For many designers, though [the council] has become a distant thing... detached itself from much of the source of creativity – designers themselves. By Tom Dyckhoff -- Michael Bichard- The Times (UK)

New Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI) president plans to get people talking: Sean O'Laoire aims to stir public debate about architecture and planning... By Frank McDonald -- Murray O'Laoire Architects- The Irish Times

Q&A with Julius Shulman: The famed architectural photographer on green buildings and how photos outlive houses ..."I never thought of becoming an architect, thank goodness."- LA City Beat (Los Angeles)

Before the Buildings: "Frank Gehry: Process Models and Drawings"...productively deepens our sense of why Gehry is thought of as among the most sculptural of contemporary architects.- New York Sun

Call For Entries: 2008 Ceramic Tiles of Italy Design Competition; deadline: January 31 (open to North American architects/designers)- Ceramic Tiles of Italy

Call for papers: International conference: Contemporary Techniques, New Strategies: Matter, systems & digital technologies for the new emergent architectures; April 9-11 in Barcelona; deadline for proposals: January 25; final papers due March 15- EsArq School of Architecture, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya

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